Connie Ruzich
@wherrypilgrim.bsky.social
First World War researcher and Fulbright Scholar (University of Exeter) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”(Novalis)
Remembering Sarojini Naidu, a "lyrical voice of women's empowerment," political activist, and poet, born 13 Feb 1879. Here is her #FWW poem "The Gift of India": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-... #poetry
February 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Remembering Sarojini Naidu, a "lyrical voice of women's empowerment," political activist, and poet, born 13 Feb 1879. Here is her #FWW poem "The Gift of India": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-... #poetry
Most definitely
February 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Most definitely
"Man that is master of his flesh,
And has the laugh of death and pain..."
--from "Gramophone Tunes" by Eva Dobell, #FWW nurse and poet, born Jan. 30, 1876. Read more about Dobell's hospital war experience here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/08/gram... #WW1 #gramophone
And has the laugh of death and pain..."
--from "Gramophone Tunes" by Eva Dobell, #FWW nurse and poet, born Jan. 30, 1876. Read more about Dobell's hospital war experience here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/08/gram... #WW1 #gramophone
January 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"Man that is master of his flesh,
And has the laugh of death and pain..."
--from "Gramophone Tunes" by Eva Dobell, #FWW nurse and poet, born Jan. 30, 1876. Read more about Dobell's hospital war experience here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/08/gram... #WW1 #gramophone
And has the laugh of death and pain..."
--from "Gramophone Tunes" by Eva Dobell, #FWW nurse and poet, born Jan. 30, 1876. Read more about Dobell's hospital war experience here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/08/gram... #WW1 #gramophone
Remembering John McCrae, author of #WW1 poem "In Flanders Fields," who died in France Jan 28, 1918.
"We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow..."
You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/04/brea... #FWW #poetry
"We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow..."
You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/04/brea... #FWW #poetry
January 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Remembering John McCrae, author of #WW1 poem "In Flanders Fields," who died in France Jan 28, 1918.
"We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow..."
You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/04/brea... #FWW #poetry
"We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow..."
You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/04/brea... #FWW #poetry
Remembering Gilbert Waterhouse, #FWW British soldier, born January 22, 1883.
"A thousand phantom armies go and come,
While Reason whispers as each marches past,
“This is the last of wars,—this is the last!”
Full poem and story here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-... #WW1 #poetry
"A thousand phantom armies go and come,
While Reason whispers as each marches past,
“This is the last of wars,—this is the last!”
Full poem and story here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-... #WW1 #poetry
January 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Remembering Gilbert Waterhouse, #FWW British soldier, born January 22, 1883.
"A thousand phantom armies go and come,
While Reason whispers as each marches past,
“This is the last of wars,—this is the last!”
Full poem and story here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-... #WW1 #poetry
"A thousand phantom armies go and come,
While Reason whispers as each marches past,
“This is the last of wars,—this is the last!”
Full poem and story here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-... #WW1 #poetry
New post: "Under a Bloodred Sky":
"Come to me now and taunt me—
In vain, here all eyes are blind:
I am occupied here, my pale beauty,
within me millions die."
Hameiri was a Jewish soldier-poet in the #FWW. You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2025/01/unde... #WW1 #Austro-Hungary
"Come to me now and taunt me—
In vain, here all eyes are blind:
I am occupied here, my pale beauty,
within me millions die."
Hameiri was a Jewish soldier-poet in the #FWW. You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2025/01/unde... #WW1 #Austro-Hungary
January 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
New post: "Under a Bloodred Sky":
"Come to me now and taunt me—
In vain, here all eyes are blind:
I am occupied here, my pale beauty,
within me millions die."
Hameiri was a Jewish soldier-poet in the #FWW. You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2025/01/unde... #WW1 #Austro-Hungary
"Come to me now and taunt me—
In vain, here all eyes are blind:
I am occupied here, my pale beauty,
within me millions die."
Hameiri was a Jewish soldier-poet in the #FWW. You can read more here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2025/01/unde... #WW1 #Austro-Hungary
Remembering Robert W. Service, "Poet of the Yukon" and "the Canadian Kipling," born 16 Jan. 1874. Here is his #FWW poem "Only a Boche": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2018/01/only... #WW1 #RobertWService
January 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Remembering Robert W. Service, "Poet of the Yukon" and "the Canadian Kipling," born 16 Jan. 1874. Here is his #FWW poem "Only a Boche": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2018/01/only... #WW1 #RobertWService
The Attic of the Wind
January 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The Attic of the Wind
I also enjoyed the misty, moisty morning ❤️
December 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I also enjoyed the misty, moisty morning ❤️
In the porch of St James, Tunbridge Wells
December 24, 2024 at 3:39 PM
In the porch of St James, Tunbridge Wells
Roland Leighton, British soldier and poet, died 23 Dec. 1915. His fiancée, Vera Brittain, dedicated her poem "Perhaps" to his memory. It speaks to those who struggle through the holidays in the wake of losing someone they loved: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/12/perh... #poetry #grief #FWW
December 22, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Roland Leighton, British soldier and poet, died 23 Dec. 1915. His fiancée, Vera Brittain, dedicated her poem "Perhaps" to his memory. It speaks to those who struggle through the holidays in the wake of losing someone they loved: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/12/perh... #poetry #grief #FWW
First World War centenary memorial window in Chelsworth, Suffolk (by Moya Quinn)
December 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM
First World War centenary memorial window in Chelsworth, Suffolk (by Moya Quinn)
Lavenham Church, Book of names and stories
December 19, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Lavenham Church, Book of names and stories
Bury St Edmunds, St. Mary’s
December 19, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Bury St Edmunds, St. Mary’s
From Kedlington, Suffolk… possibly brothers? In any case, a treasure of a church!
December 19, 2024 at 12:38 PM
From Kedlington, Suffolk… possibly brothers? In any case, a treasure of a church!
Here's a post on two short Christmas poems by soldiers killed in #FWW, one by Saki (Lance Sgt H.H. Munro), born 18 Dec. 1870, the other by Joyce Kilmer: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/12/caro... #WW1
December 18, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Here's a post on two short Christmas poems by soldiers killed in #FWW, one by Saki (Lance Sgt H.H. Munro), born 18 Dec. 1870, the other by Joyce Kilmer: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/12/caro... #WW1
Celebrating Lola Ridge, the modernist poet compared to Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon, born 12 Dec. 1873. She was an immigrant who defended the poor and oppressed; her fascinating story and #FWW poem "The Song" can be read here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-... #poetry #LolaRidge
December 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Celebrating Lola Ridge, the modernist poet compared to Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon, born 12 Dec. 1873. She was an immigrant who defended the poor and oppressed; her fascinating story and #FWW poem "The Song" can be read here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-... #poetry #LolaRidge
"Our dead are coming home again..."
Remembering British writer Evelyn Underhill, born Dec. 6, 1875. Here is the rest of her #FWW poem "The Return": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2019/08/our-... #poetry #WW1
Remembering British writer Evelyn Underhill, born Dec. 6, 1875. Here is the rest of her #FWW poem "The Return": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2019/08/our-... #poetry #WW1
December 5, 2024 at 4:13 PM
"Our dead are coming home again..."
Remembering British writer Evelyn Underhill, born Dec. 6, 1875. Here is the rest of her #FWW poem "The Return": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2019/08/our-... #poetry #WW1
Remembering British writer Evelyn Underhill, born Dec. 6, 1875. Here is the rest of her #FWW poem "The Return": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2019/08/our-... #poetry #WW1
Geoffrey Bache Smith, a friend of JRR Tolkien and a member of "The First Fellowship," was killed 3 Dec. 1916. Smith's poem "Let us tell quiet stories of kind eyes" was written for Robert Gilson, another friend who was killed 1 July 1916: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-... #Tolkien #FWW
December 2, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Geoffrey Bache Smith, a friend of JRR Tolkien and a member of "The First Fellowship," was killed 3 Dec. 1916. Smith's poem "Let us tell quiet stories of kind eyes" was written for Robert Gilson, another friend who was killed 1 July 1916: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-... #Tolkien #FWW
Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, was born 30 Nov 1874. Here is her #FWW poem "The Piper" (a response to McCrae's "In Flanders Fields)": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-... #LMMontgomery
November 29, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, was born 30 Nov 1874. Here is her #FWW poem "The Piper" (a response to McCrae's "In Flanders Fields)": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-... #LMMontgomery
Remembering the Cromwell twins, Dorothea and Gladys, born 28 Nov. 1886.
"No one will testify
They saw me suffer this;—
There’s no one passing by."
The sisters were Red Cross volunteers in #WW1; the trauma of the #FWW killed them. Gladys's poem: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-...
"No one will testify
They saw me suffer this;—
There’s no one passing by."
The sisters were Red Cross volunteers in #WW1; the trauma of the #FWW killed them. Gladys's poem: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-...
November 28, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Remembering the Cromwell twins, Dorothea and Gladys, born 28 Nov. 1886.
"No one will testify
They saw me suffer this;—
There’s no one passing by."
The sisters were Red Cross volunteers in #WW1; the trauma of the #FWW killed them. Gladys's poem: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-...
"No one will testify
They saw me suffer this;—
There’s no one passing by."
The sisters were Red Cross volunteers in #WW1; the trauma of the #FWW killed them. Gladys's poem: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-...
Just finished the audiobook of BABEL by RF Kuang. At nearly 22 hours, it's perfect for those long holiday road trips. Loved the #linguistics, the #history, the fantasy, the world-building -- a compelling, immersive novel. #Babel
November 27, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Just finished the audiobook of BABEL by RF Kuang. At nearly 22 hours, it's perfect for those long holiday road trips. Loved the #linguistics, the #history, the fantasy, the world-building -- a compelling, immersive novel. #Babel
Visited NYC today and was awe-struck by the Met's SIENA: THE RISE OF PAINTING exhibit (don't you just love Margaret of Antioch SMITING Beelzebub?). And stopped by to visit my favorite NYC #WWI memorial (to the 107th Infantry).
November 26, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Visited NYC today and was awe-struck by the Met's SIENA: THE RISE OF PAINTING exhibit (don't you just love Margaret of Antioch SMITING Beelzebub?). And stopped by to visit my favorite NYC #WWI memorial (to the 107th Infantry).
"But hark! joy – joy – strange joy.
Lo! heights of night ringing with unseen larks.
Music showering our upturned list'ning faces.
Death could drop from the dark
As easily as song –
But song only dropped"
-Isaac Rosenberg, born 25 Nov 1890
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2014/12/retu... #FWW #poetry
Lo! heights of night ringing with unseen larks.
Music showering our upturned list'ning faces.
Death could drop from the dark
As easily as song –
But song only dropped"
-Isaac Rosenberg, born 25 Nov 1890
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2014/12/retu... #FWW #poetry
November 24, 2024 at 11:09 PM
"But hark! joy – joy – strange joy.
Lo! heights of night ringing with unseen larks.
Music showering our upturned list'ning faces.
Death could drop from the dark
As easily as song –
But song only dropped"
-Isaac Rosenberg, born 25 Nov 1890
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2014/12/retu... #FWW #poetry
Lo! heights of night ringing with unseen larks.
Music showering our upturned list'ning faces.
Death could drop from the dark
As easily as song –
But song only dropped"
-Isaac Rosenberg, born 25 Nov 1890
behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2014/12/retu... #FWW #poetry